Using collective trust for group formation

  • Authors:
  • Thomas Largillier;Julita Vassileva

  • Affiliations:
  • MADMUC Lab, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada;MADMUC Lab, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

  • Venue:
  • CRIWG'12 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Collaboration and Technology
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Group formation is a difficult task that arises in many different contexts. It is either done manually or using methods based on individual users' criteria. Users may not be willing to fill a profile or their profile may evolve with time without users updating it. A collaboration may also fail for personal reasons between users with compatible profiles as it may be a success between antagonist users that may start a productive conflict inside a team. Existing methods do not take into account previous successful or unsuccessful collaborations to forge new ones. The authors introduce a new model of collaborative trust to help select the "best" fitted group for a task. This paper also presents one heuristic to find the best possible group since in practice considering all the possibilities is hardly an option.